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[12] Design showing a longitudinal section through the concert hall, c1765-68, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 1/3
Purpose
[12] Design showing a longitudinal section through the concert hall, c1765-68, unexecuted
Aspect
Longitudinal section through the concert hall, showing a wall containing an apse, flanked by winged figures in the spandrels, and with a compartmental semi-dome, divided by bands of fret, and ornamented with octagonal square and circular tablets, and compartments of arabesques, and with the pencil outline of a central arched recess flanked by niches
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Sketch of a Project for Edinbr (in an unknown eighteenth-century(?) hand)
Signed and dated
- 1765-68
date range: c1765-68 (see scheme notes)
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (305 x 327)
Hand
James Adam (attributed by Prof A A Tait)
Literature
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 53
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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